2017 Issue 1

Guiding religious scholar Reza Aslan through his “spiritual adventure series,” two alumni practice what they learned as film majors.
A new CNN original series, Believer with Reza Aslan, employs the talents of two alumni who majored in film: executive producer and show runner Liz Bronstein ’89…

When computer-analyst-by-day-artist-by-night Julia L. Kay ’83 invited fellow artists to draw each other via an online portrait drawing group, she had no idea how many, if any, would respond. Seven years later, almost 1,0…

Students in the class Nonprofits and Social Change heard from nonprofit executives about the challenges of scaling up to meet pressing social needs.
WHEN A COUPLE OF GUYS brandishing baseball bats showed up …

Restorative Radio offers longform audio pieces that broadcast the sounds and voices of home to those behind prison walls.
“By design, prisons are the most censored institutions in the country. Letters are screened…

“The crisis of criminal justice we are facing is a problem of dehumanization,” says Jody Lewen ’86, co-founder and executive direct of the project. Education, she says, transforms the lives of those incarcerated—but she …

The Center for Global Studies invited students studying abroad to use photography to reflect on their experiences. Wesleyan students, staff, and faculty voted for their favorite images, and winners were announced in Febr…

Colleagues across campus collaborate with Professor of Classical Studies Christopher Parslow to unravel the mystery of a small piece of silver plated bronze, shaped like a prosciutto, that had been buried by the erup…

The Douglas Cannon has been part of Wesleyan’s history for 150 years—yet generations of students have come and gone without laying eyes on the peripatetic cannon. To celebrate its anniversary, herewith is a short pri…